<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Marc Tucker—October 30, 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">National Council on Education and the Economy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Will --</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>I know of no such study. And, yes, someone should do this. </b> I've long seen our system of education as appallingly wasteful. Most college students go to college to learn what they should have learned in secondary school, and a large fraction fail to do so. Which is to say that, though they have a high school diploma, <b>they leave high school not yet ready to do high school level work.</b> <b>That is waste on a colossal scale.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">—<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Marc </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=======</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;">October 29, 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Will Fitzhugh <</b><a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170);"><b>fitzhugh@tcr.org</b></span></a><b>> writes:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Albert Shanker and others long argued that what colleges ask for, high schools will try to provide. It seems that colleges are not asking high schools to teach students to write term papers. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">As a result, and after many many professor complaints about poor expository writing, most four-year colleges, including Stanford, Harvard, etc. now require Freshpersons to take a semester or more of remedial expository writing (although they don’t call it that). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>If Ohio State spends $5000,000 a year</b> for writing instructors, and there <b>are 2,500 (?) four-year colleges in the country, what is the annual cost of not asking the high schools to teach their college-bound students to write term papers? 2,500 x $500,000 = $1,250,000,000 ?</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Has any study been done? Could one be done? I would be very interested to see <b>the total expenditure</b> for this policy. Surely such a large expenditure—and such a waste of student academic time—are worth a look?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Will Fitzhugh</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span>The Concord Review</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><a href="http://tcr.org/">tcr.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><br>==========<div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>